L.A. Resources: There are many sites on the internet for English teachers. Here are a few I’ve used.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
wide variety of activities

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Online Writing Lab

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
Poetry – a poem a day for the 180 days of school. Designed for High School

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/
Teaching & learning with the New York Times

http://www.readinglady.com/
Lots of great tidbits, signs, strategies… for literacy

http://www.flocabulary.com/teacher_free_songs_videos.html
Flocabulary has free raps and videos… pretty good stuff

http://theweekinrap.com/
The Week in Rap, by Flocabulary. Every single week, focuses on current events, in rap. Flocabulary provides the text to the raps, so you can print out.

http://wordpress.com/
A great free blog site – can serve as your school website. Clean, no distracting advertising.

http://www.youtube.com/
Lots and lots of great stuff, including readers theater.

http://www.teachertube.com/
interesting podcasts by teachers and lots of other resources